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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Richard's profession?
(a) Police officer.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Professor.

2. Why does Sheba cry when teaching her class?
(a) A student points out her sheer skirt.
(b) Steven calls her ugly.
(c) The electricity goes out.
(d) A female student spits in her face.

3. Why does Barbara believe she is the most qualified to tell Sheba's story?
(a) Barbara has been friends with Richard for over twenty years and knows the details of their marriage intimately.
(b) She believes she has been Sheba's closest confidant and has witnessed the affair first-hand.
(c) She knows Steven personally and has watched him grow up.
(d) She is actually Barbara's half-sister.

4. Why is Sheba's affair considered so scandalous?
(a) The boy is her cousin.
(b) The boy is underage.
(c) The boy is friends with her husband.
(d) The boy has Down's Syndrome.

5. In the foreword, where does Barbara say that Eddie and his family are currently staying?
(a) Dublin.
(b) New York.
(c) New Dehli.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Barbara first notice Sheba's beauty?

2. How does Sheba feel about the gift left for her in Chapter 2?

3. Where is Sheba teaching?

4. Who is the narrator of the story?

5. What do the students call the Homework Club, as described in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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